My first quarter meals | Photo Gallery

 

I have this vision to make a neat photo gallery of all the meals I ate in my first quarter at college here at UCSC, whether it was at the dining hall, out in the city, other on-campus restaurants, or even cooking.

I've taken a photo of almost every meal. Around 90% I would say. Maybe more. Here we go!

[9/22 5:08 PM] First ever meal, not a good start. Bad fries and bad pizza.

[9/23 9:33 AM] Breakfast. Bad.

[9/24 12:53 PM] Lunch. First time discovering pesto pizza which is a gem

[9/24 7:28 PM] Went out to hawaiian restaurant with friends at Santa Cruz pier. Very good hawaiian kabobs with lots of pineapple stuff. Way better than dining hall

[9/25 7:05 PM] Atrocious. My soul leaves me seeing this picture.

[9/26 10:34 AM] Free breakfast social for math department people. Very good!

[9/26 12:38 PM] Popcorn chicken, hopefully I ate more than just this...

[9/26 5:31 PM] Good dinner at "cornucopia" UCSC school-wide club event

[9/27 12:48 PM] Good.

[9/27 6:21 PM] I remember Raymon and I telling ourselves we should eat healthy and get some veggies haha oh my god.

[9/28 8:12 PM] Wow this is terrible but I ate it.

[10/2 7:38 PM] Went home for the weekend and came back with a BANG when we went on an adventure for taco bell

[10/3 1:56 PM] Passable.

[10/3 6:20 PM] In fact I stuffed some in tupperware apparently for dinner.

[10/4 12:50 PM] I really didn't want to include this. I'm sorry... I understand if you leave bro man... MAN OH MY ****

[10/5 2:12 PM] This stir fry was really really good.

[10/6 8:22 PM] Hard to mess Mexican food up.

[10/7 8:11 PM] Eh.

[10/8 1:54 PM] Omg Pesto pizza is back!

[10/8 8:29 PM] So we packed some up too for dinner!

[10/9 1:29 PM] The fries could be worse.

[10/9 8:20 PM] Pretty bad tbh.

[10/10 10:04 AM] Getting breakfast at cafe after class

[10/10 2:13 PM] Pretty good.

[10/11 12:32 PM] Discovering yogurt bowl ig.

[10/11 9:28 PM] Greek food, really good for the standard of dining hall.

[10/12 1:53 PM] Packed the greek food haha. You know that stuff was so good but I didn't bring my tupperware container so I legit told the cashier that "I forgot my inhaler" even though I don't have asthma and so I went back and got the container lmao that's kinda foul but i needed it.

[10/12 9:05 PM] Went out and wanted to cry after eating this.

[10/16 2:42 PM] Went home and went to cubing comp for the weekend. Here's the Monday back.

[10/16 10:09 PM] This is so sad just compared to all the home food.

[10/17 1:55 PM] I remember taking a photo of this. I was going to be late to tutoring so this was my lunch that day.

[10/17 8:05 PM] Dinner.

[10/18 2:48 PM] Wow pesto pizza.

[10/18 10:55 PM] I took two photos for two plates. The second one is so bad I don't even want to include it. 

[10/19 2:34 PM] Okay I guess. Fries are terrible.

[10/19 8:07 PM] Went out with friends for good tacos

[10/20 8:34 PM] Good dinner with baked potato. Made me smile at least.

[10/21 4:39 PM] Today was Saturday and we went to Capitola. I missed chipotle somuch.

[10/22 10:01 PM] Deep breath in.

[10/23 5:07 PM] Not sure if this is lunch or dinner...

[10/23 7:56 PM] ...but I ate two more.

[10/24 11:14 AM] These toasts are from the library cafe.

[10/24 5:09 PM] Free woodstock pizza at a math social event.

[10/25 12:50 PM] Cowell has a panini press

[10/25 9:37 PM] And back to our dining hall

[10/30 7:27 PM] Went home for weekend. More toast from library cafe.

[10/31 8:07 PM] Starting to get sick of the toasts

[11/1 3:55 PM] Discovered Grubhub+ is free for students

[11/2 11:44 AM] Stir fry so no stir cry. 

[11/2 10:39 PM] Eh.

[11/3 1:20 PM] LOL I'm going to include this haha it was google meal while my sister was driving me home. AHHHHHHHHHHHH

[11/6 9:37 PM] After a weekend at home we grubhub chipotle

[11/7 1:55 PM] Pretty alright actually

[11/7 8:01 PM] Cool shot ig. 

[11/8 12:31 PM] Wow this was really good and really filling. Cowell dining hall.

[11/8 7:32 PM] Went out for tacos with friends.

[11/14 2:58] Suddenly decided to start lacking with the photos but we back.

[11/15 12:54 PM] It's alright.

[11/16 12:12 AM] So basically 11/15 dinner cuz we were studying for the entire night. Here's how we reward that study session. This was my first and only time so far eating cupnoodles.

[11/16 1:44 PM] Alright.

[11/17 3:04 PM] Same place next day.

[11/17 10:42 PM] Baked potato is really good.

[11/18 3:28 PM] Pretty bad tbh.

[11/19 12:55 PM] Pretty bad tbh again.

[11/19 9:40 PM] This was alright. On the right plate is fried rice with orange chicken tenders and broccoli beef. Left place is potato samosa with fries.

[11/20 12:41 PM] Discovered university bistro.

[11/21 12:51 PM] They just randomly decided to have some pretzel burgers

[11/27 12:07 PM] After like a 5-day thanksgiving break^

[11/28 11:13 AM] This was my lunch.

[11/28 8:11 PM] And this was my dinner.

[11/29 1:46 PM] Dining hall pho. I'm just going to move on.

[11/29 8:00 PM] It's whatever.

[11/30 2:37 PM] First time at oakes cafe.

[12/1 1:46 PM] Baked potato yay.

[12/1 10:24 PM] tacos.

[12/2 7:23 PM] Really bad.

[12/3 2:08 PM] Ok pesto pizza then sure.

[12/3 7:02 PM] Went to San Jose with friends, shake shack lol.

[12/4 1:38 PM] And here begins a 4-day streak of University bistro that we booked.

[12/4 9:22 PM] Pretty bad. It's bad when you have to resort to pizza.

[12/5 1:34 PM] Bistro day 2 mediterranean platter.

[12/5 8:21 PM] They needa do more pasta cuz thats hard to messup.

[12/6 1:49 PM] Bistro day 3, Cool pizza.

[12/7 1:40 PM] Bistro day 4, So good burger.

[12/7 10:10 PM] Went to university Banana Joes with friends

[12/8 1:04 PM] Ig its ok

[12/8 9:11 PM] Idk why they think its ok to do this with tater tots but alright

[12/9 11:57 AM] Alright ig tbh. 

[12/9 dinnertime] A long string of photos from Austin and I cooking yay.

You know I have like 4 more dining hall photos to finish it off but they aren't backed up to google photos because I ran out of storage and I'm too lazy to figure that out but I think you got the gist. Through going thru all these photos I realized HOW ATROCIOUS this is and how much better I deserve. I took a lot of photos and I'm also missing a lot of photos but its hard to take a photo every time, sometimes you forget.

There's like rarely any breakfast photos because I usually drink a smoothie for breakfast that I blend up the previous day. You can see some smoothie videos on my YouTube Shorts, ex: strawberry limeade. Other times I'll just eat a clif bar or something. I don't have enough points to swipe in 3x a day.

Now next quarter i have downgraded to the lowest meal plan which is 8x swipes a week pace. Which is crazy but I LOVE IT because that gives me an excuse to use that money saved on grubhubbing chipotle. In addition, I'll go home some weekends too. And I had like $500 leftover that I had to cashout at the markets last quarter on the middle plan so yeah.

I love home food and writing this blog post made me realize that so much more. Be on the lookout for a full college wrap-up post soon!

Lyric(s) of the Post: 

"Am I making me happy? 

Am I trying so badly?

Do you like it when I'm lying?

Is it better if I'm crying

Is it part of surviving?

Is my brain over firing?"

711 - Emei